What does Shuffle do, and what’s the Take number?

Shuffle gives you a fresh take on the style you're on, with new layouts, crops, inks or camera moves depending on the style, and it keeps every choice you made yourself.

Step by step

1. Open More ways to tweak it (on a phone, the More tab). The first row is A new take.
2. Tap Shuffle. The preview changes at once.
3. Don't like it? Tap Undo to go back to the take you had before. You can step back through your last 10 takes.
4. On a computer, press S to shuffle without opening More.

What Shuffle changes in each style

The line under the buttons says what changes, then 'Anything you’ve picked yourself stays.'

Style	Shuffle changes
Xerox	the layout, the crops and the inks
Xerox Poster	the paper, the poster layouts and the inks
Deck	the deck of effects, which colours each part of the song gets and the ghost words
Broadside	the inks, the posters and the prints
Widescreen	the framing, how the cover moves, and the font when it’s on Our pick
Postscript	where the words sit, which words are handwritten, the framing, and the font, hand and mood when they’re on Our pick
Marker	the doodles, how wobbly the writing is, and the background when it’s on Our pick
Folio	the page layouts and the crops
Now Playing	how the colours flow, the chorus colour and the camera
Texts	the time on the phone, the reactions, the effects and how the wallpaper sits
Tapestry	the picture and the font when they’re on Our pick, which side the picture sits, the record and the camera’s swing
Departure	the camera, the view out of the window, and the sign and the lights when they’re on Our pick
Textmode	the world, which side your cover sits, the margins and how the letters scramble
Behind	how the lines stack, which side they slide in from, the inks and the world behind
Ransom	the cut-out letters, their colours and the desk underneath
Diary	the page layouts, where the photos go, the camera and the wobble of the handwriting

The Take number

• Under the row you'll see something like 'Take 48213'. Every take has its own number.
• With a mouse, the tip says 'This take’s number. Shuffle again or Undo to move between takes.'
• No number means you're on your song's own take, the one we worked out from your song, its tempo and its colours.
• You can't type a number in. To get back to a take, use Undo.

Good to know

• Your own choices stay. Font, colour, size and anything else you picked stay as they are. Where a row is still on Our pick, Shuffle may change it.
• The take is shared by every style. Shuffling in one style changes how the other styles look when you switch to them. If you liked another style's look, Undo brings the old take back.
• Undo only undoes Shuffle. It doesn't undo a font, colour or other change. See How do I undo my changes or reset a style?
• Your take is saved and used for your download.
• Shuffling is free. Try as many takes as you like.

If something goes wrong

• Undo is greyed out. There's no earlier take to go back to.
• Another style looks different from before. You shuffled, and the take is shared by every style. Tap Undo until it's back.

Hidden extras

• S shuffles from anywhere in the studio on a computer, except while you're typing.
• Shuffle is a quick way to see a style's range before you settle. See What’s the quickest way to compare styles?